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English
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'A Lion in the Path' : Genesis of the Utah War 1857-1858
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Confessions of a Revisionist Historian : David L. Bigler on the Mormons and the West
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Salt Lake City, UT
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University of Utah Tanner Trust Fund
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111-131
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Millennialist beliefs were the basis of the Mormon conflicts in Missouri and Illinois, which in turn led to the revellion against the U.S. government in 1857-1858. The Mormons viewed confrontation with the federal government as a necessary step before God's kingdom could "fill the whole earth," but it also underscored the impossibility of a theocracy ruled from the topd down existing within a democracy, which governs from the bottom up. [From the Appreciation]
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A History of Illinois : From Its Commencement as a State in 1818 to 1847
At Sword's Point, Part 1 : A Documentary History of the Utah War to 1858
A Winter with the Mormons : The 1852 Letters of Jotham Goodell
Cultures in Conflict : A Documentary History of the Mormon War in Illinois
Fruits of Mormonism, or, a Fair and Candid Statement of Facts Illustrative of Mormon Principles, Mormon Policy, and Mormon Character, by More Than Forty Eye-Witnesses
On the Mormon Frontier : The Diary of Hosea Stout [1844-1861]
Political Patterns in New Mexico and Utah Territories : 1850-1900
The Mormon Rebellion : America's First Civil War, 1857-1858